Monday, November 15, 2010

América Móvil Deploys Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS Mobile Backhaul

América Móvil has selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support next-generation mobile broadband services across 11 countries in Latin America: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. América Móvil has deployed 3G networks throughout Latin America and is now evolving them to a more cost-effective mobile transport network infrastructure that supports current services while enabling the delivery of new multimedia services and applications.


As part of this three-year transformation project, Alcatel-Lucent is deploying its 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) along with the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). As part of this three-year transformation project, Alcatel-Lucent is deploying its 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) along with the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). Financial terms were not disclosed.
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  • América Móvil finished September 2010 with 266.8 million accesses, 11.5% more than in the same quarter of 2009. This figure includes 216.8 million wireless subscribers, up 11.6% year-on-year, and 50 million fixed line accesses that increased 10.9% in the period. Of that figure, 28.1 million correspond to fixed voice, 12.5 million to broadband and 9.4 million to PayTV.

    In Q3 2010, América Móvil added 5.5 million wireless subscribers in the third quarter, 37.6% more than
    in the same quarter of 2009 with postpaid net additions 22.4% greater than those of a year before. We also added 2.1 million fixed line accesses comprising voice, broadband and video services, for a total of 7.6 million new accesses overall.